Bryan Alexander
@edufuturist.bsky.social
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Futurist, academic, writer.
This is so stupid and bad:
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about 14 hours ago
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And in another story about climate change not happening, a bit of Brazil is now arid for the first time:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
about 15 hours ago
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Students join the Iranian protests:
www.dw.com/en/iran-stud...
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Iran's students join economic protest, president seeks talks – DW – 12/30/2025
Students demonstrated at several universities in Iran, semi-official media reported, after demonstrations by shopkeepers and bazaar merchants moved the president to announce plans for talks with prote...
https://www.dw.com/en/iran-students-join-economic-protests-president-seeks-talks/a-75346547
about 23 hours ago
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Speaking of climate change not happening, hundreds of Alpine ski resorts are shutting down. A question: "whether to let nature reclaim the mountains."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/alps-france-skiing-snow-warming-resorts-closing-ceuze-landscape
1 day ago
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New Jersey bought up flood-prone properties against sea level rise:
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
(HT
@managarm.bsky.social
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NJ’s answer to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties
The state deals with flooding and sea level rise by buying homes in flood prone areas.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/as-floods-become-more-severe-a-new-jersey-program-provides-a-model/
1 day ago
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RIP the engineer who invented this small, awesome thing: the door pointer on a car's fuel gage.
www.theautopian.com/rip-the-guy-...
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RIP The Guy Who Put The Little Arrow On Your Fuel Gauge Though I Think There Was An Earlier One - The Autopian
If there’s one car fact or Easter Egg or detail (or whatever you want to call it) that seems to delight non-car-obsessed people more than any other one, I think it has to be this one: fuel gauges tend...
https://www.theautopian.com/rip-the-guy-who-put-the-little-arrow-on-your-fuel-gauge-though-i-think-there-was-an-earlier-one/
4 days ago
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Interesting to see a conservative anti-AI current develop. Hawley is already there:
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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‘We have to reject that with every fiber of our being’: DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic
His opposition to AI has little to do with cultural grievances or “woke” ideology — and far more to do with economic disruption, labor displacement and the scale of the technology itself.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/27/we-have-to-reject-that-with-every-fiber-of-our-being-desantis-emerges-as-a-chief-ai-skeptic-00704333
4 days ago
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I innocently sat down to read. Then Spider joined me, climbing onto my lap. Then his brother Hunter piled on. I was trapped.
4 days ago
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Good morning, all.
4 days ago
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Ceredwyn wanted to use her phone, but Spider disagreed.
5 days ago
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Fascinating idea for teaching with AI: (HT
@managarm.bsky.social
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6 days ago
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NYTimes: "There’s a collective fascination with Generation X" Me, Xer: No there isn't.
6 days ago
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reposted by
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Shashank Joshi
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We're starting the new Knives Out. Fun stuff so far: snappy editing, lots of comedy balanced against politics, call-outs to classic mysteries.
8 days ago
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San Francisco State Universities offers buyouts to all faculty who've been there at least five years:
goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
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SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.
https://goldengatexpress.org/114511/campus/sfsu-offers-buyouts-to-all-tenure-track-and-tenured-faculty
8 days ago
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Busy with work, I daydream about a Klingon Christmas.
8 days ago
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The CBS 60 Minutes spot is now on the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/60mi...
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
9 days ago
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"The... New York Times... is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation [and]must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" So what exactly is he asking to be done?
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9 days ago
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A fire for the solstice.
10 days ago
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The first Trump "battleship" should be the USS Epstein.
10 days ago
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I'm finishing up a video looking back on Trump's attacks on higher ed. Going through documentation... once again I regret that I no longer drink.
10 days ago
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America the petrostate: Trump pauses 5 offshore wind projects | AP News
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration pauses 5 wind projects off the East Coast
The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentag...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-c0ac1e447c93126327f1922327921aa0
10 days ago
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From a Chicago eatery:
11 days ago
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Very interesting to see the median sizes of new American houses shrink. (Source: Paul Kedrosky's newsletter)
11 days ago
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In the DC Metro:
12 days ago
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12 days ago
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Bryan Alexander
Tim Onion
13 days ago
ICE whistles work.
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The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-horns-and-whistles-work/
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One datapoint for the time:
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13 days ago
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US suspends visa lottery after MIT, Brown murders:
www.npr.org/2025/12/19/n...
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Trump suspends U.S. green card lottery after Brown University and MIT shootings
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump's direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5649339/trump-suspends-u-s-green-card-lottery-after-brown-university-and-mit-shootings
13 days ago
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Sometimes Duolingo gets sinister.
14 days ago
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@hopkinspress.bsky.social
posted this article about my new book with them, and I'm delighted:
www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/nav...
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Navigating Higher Ed After the Peak: The Next Era of Education
Mapping out the strategic future of higher education.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/navigating-higher-ed-after-peak-next-era-education
14 days ago
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14 days ago
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Ending the National Center for Atmospheric Research - the Trump admin continues to go after climate science.
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14 days ago
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Canada's population actually shrank last quarter : the "sharpest, and only second, quarter-over-quarter decline on record dating back to the 1940s"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Canada's population drops as country caps immigration
Canada's population declined by more than 76,000 people between July and October, driven by a drop in foreign students and temporary workers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g6595619yo
15 days ago
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Ellis Rosen
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"binders full of nothingness" might be my favorite phrase for the second Trump administration.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)
Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-susie-wiles-interview-exclusive-part-2
15 days ago
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Seen on the DC Metro:
16 days ago
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Some morning stretches this
#caturday
from Spider and Hunter.
16 days ago
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Matt Reed describes one accreditor meeting reacting to a hard year for higher ed:
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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A New Bluntness at the Middle States Conference
Matt Reed delivers an insider’s view of the annual MSCHE conference.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/confessions-community-college-dean/2025/12/15/new-bluntness-middle-states
16 days ago
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I would read this.
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17 days ago
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Someone murdered actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife. Then Trump somehow managed to make it all about - himself.
17 days ago
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Amazing act, an unarmed man charging a shooter and taking his gun:
amp.9news.com.au/article/a09d...
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Bondi Beach shooting: Twelve people dead, dozens more injured in terror attack shooting at Bondi Beach
https://amp.9news.com.au/article/a09d7058-dfa5-40c5-9735-711a79493e03
18 days ago
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This is the most French way to do vegan propaganda:
youtu.be/Na9VmMNJvsA?...
And I want to make that final dish -
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Intermarché - Conte de Noël
YouTube video by Intermarché
https://youtu.be/Na9VmMNJvsA?si=rTfabWjEurJgs2Al
18 days ago
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Local source on Brown shooting:
www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...
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Live updates: Active shooter reported at Brown University
Brown University is on lockdown after reports of an active shooter near the Barus and Holley Engineering building on Thayer Street.
https://www.providencejournal.com/live-story/news/crime/2025/12/13/brown-university-providence-rhode-island-active-shooter-live-updates/87754385007/
19 days ago
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Indeed:
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19 days ago
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The US launches a "Pax Silica Declaration, uniting Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore and South Korea"
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Trump enlists 5 allies to counter China on rare earths and tech
A new coalition unites Singapore, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Israel.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/trump-enlists-5-allies-to-counter-china-on-rare-earths-and-tech-00688068
19 days ago
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On how cuts to international students hit one Canadian college and its community:
macleans.ca/society/inte...
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International Student Caps Are Decimating Canadian Colleges - Macleans.ca
The cuts triggered campus closures, layoffs and a blow to rural B.C.’s ability to train and keep its own workforce
https://macleans.ca/society/international-student-caps-are-decimating-canadian-colleges/
19 days ago
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Gothamist describes huge cuts starting at The New School. Can anyone verify?
gothamist.com/news/the-new...
20 days ago
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RIP a classic American sf writer, John Varley:
locusmag.com/2025/12/john...
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John Varley (1947-2025)
John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had COPD and diabetes. John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan State University. His f…
https://locusmag.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025/
20 days ago
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How can academics do antiracist work in the current climate? Here's our Future Trends Forum conversation with Terri Givens:
youtu.be/bS1fw1VQNww?...
20 days ago
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